Academic stirs fight over race

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Macquarie University is standing by a senior academic who
opposes non-white immigration, arguing that academics must be free
to say what they wish, while also distancing itself from his views
and declaring racism abhorrent.

An associate professor in the Department of Public Law, Andrew
Fraser, claims that African migration increases crime, says HSC
results point to a rising ruling class of Asians and wants
Australia to withdraw from refugee conventions to avoid becoming "a
colony of the Third World".

Associate Professor Fraser, originally from Canada, believes
cognitive and athletic abilities, testosterone and "impulse
control" vary according to race, and "civilisations" should look
after their own.

The university said yesterday it was "distancing" itself from
Associate Professor Fraser's views but backed the right of
academics to say what they wish in a "responsible" way.

The acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Loxton, said there
was no place for racism at the university, but it "recognises and
protects academic freedom as essential to the conduct of teaching,
research and scholarship".

After seeing a photograph of a Sudanese child in the
Parramatta Sun, Associate Professor Fraser wrote to the
newspaper saying "an expanding black population is a sure-fire
recipe for increases in crime, violence and a wide range of other
social problems".

"The fact is that ordinary Australians are being pushed down the
path to national suicide by their own political, religious and
economic elites."

Associate Professor Fraser wrote in an email to a Woollahra
councillor, David Shoebridge, that Chinese immigration directly
threatened the "social, political and economic interests of
ordinary Australians and their children".

"Look at the annual HSC results - the consequence of which is
that Oz is creating a new heavily Asian managerial-professional,
ruling class that will feel no hesitation … in promoting the
narrow interests of their co-ethnics at the expense of white
Australians."

Associate Professor Fraser told the Herald it was only
the "educated middle class" who opposed his views. "I think most
ordinary people would find what I'm saying more or less
self-evident," he said.